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ABSTRACT:
 To documentalize the traditional knowledge on medicinal plants used
by different tribes of West Bengal , India, this brief study was conducted.
INTRODUCTION:
 Man has used plants and its different parts for medicinal purposes from
time immemorial.
 India, the home to the world’s largest number of indigenous people (86%
of the total population of India) has a rich herbal and ethnomedicinal
heritage.
MATERIAL AND METHOD:
 Field studies leading to ethnomedicinal
findings were conducted during the
periods of May 1998 to January 2001,
March 2011 to February 2013, December
2014 to May 2016.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION:
 All the sites gifted the botanists with immense number of medicinal plants.
 During the survey, it was found that wild medicinal plants were used were
used by the tribal people as antifertility elements and in other purposes to
cure different types of diseases.
 The recorded plants were used for the formation of different types of
ethnomedicinal preparations.
 Alipurduar, Cooch Behar, Bankura and many others gifted us with some
ethnomedicinal plants having multipurpose uses.
CONCLUSION:
 The present investigation
provides documentation,
conservation and
preparation of databases
of traditional knowledge
which are now a much
needed in-depth study of
ethnobotany.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
 In my limited words, I know I cannot praise all the hard work and
support that went for this project, but, sincerely, I want to thank
principal of our esteemed institution Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay for
permitting me into this job, our Head of the Department Dr. Rupa
Chakroborty, all my respected professors and last but not the least,
my fellow batchmates for supporting and guiding me throughout.
INDRANI BANIK
Department of Botany, Dinabandhu Andrews College
54, Raja S C Mallick Rd, Milan Park, Baishnabghata, Garia, Kol- 84, West Bengal
REFERENCE:
 Faizi S, Nair PK. Adivasis: The World’s Largest Population of Indigenous People. Development. 2016;59(3-4):350–353. Available from:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41301-017-0115-8. doi:10.1057/s41301-017-0115-8.
 Tiwari DN. Medicinal plants for health care. Yojana. 1999;44(6):8–17. Date accessed: 01/04/2020. Available from:
http://yojana.gov.in/cms/(S(uawpx4eotnju5xnxtxhpg455))/pdf/Yojana/English/1999/2008-02-11%20(6).pdf.

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FOLK MEDICINES OF WEST BENGAL 1.pptx

  • 1. ABSTRACT:  To documentalize the traditional knowledge on medicinal plants used by different tribes of West Bengal , India, this brief study was conducted. INTRODUCTION:  Man has used plants and its different parts for medicinal purposes from time immemorial.  India, the home to the world’s largest number of indigenous people (86% of the total population of India) has a rich herbal and ethnomedicinal heritage. MATERIAL AND METHOD:  Field studies leading to ethnomedicinal findings were conducted during the periods of May 1998 to January 2001, March 2011 to February 2013, December 2014 to May 2016. RESULT AND DISCUSSION:  All the sites gifted the botanists with immense number of medicinal plants.  During the survey, it was found that wild medicinal plants were used were used by the tribal people as antifertility elements and in other purposes to cure different types of diseases.  The recorded plants were used for the formation of different types of ethnomedicinal preparations.  Alipurduar, Cooch Behar, Bankura and many others gifted us with some ethnomedicinal plants having multipurpose uses. CONCLUSION:  The present investigation provides documentation, conservation and preparation of databases of traditional knowledge which are now a much needed in-depth study of ethnobotany. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:  In my limited words, I know I cannot praise all the hard work and support that went for this project, but, sincerely, I want to thank principal of our esteemed institution Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay for permitting me into this job, our Head of the Department Dr. Rupa Chakroborty, all my respected professors and last but not the least, my fellow batchmates for supporting and guiding me throughout. INDRANI BANIK Department of Botany, Dinabandhu Andrews College 54, Raja S C Mallick Rd, Milan Park, Baishnabghata, Garia, Kol- 84, West Bengal REFERENCE:  Faizi S, Nair PK. Adivasis: The World’s Largest Population of Indigenous People. Development. 2016;59(3-4):350–353. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41301-017-0115-8. doi:10.1057/s41301-017-0115-8.  Tiwari DN. Medicinal plants for health care. Yojana. 1999;44(6):8–17. Date accessed: 01/04/2020. Available from: http://yojana.gov.in/cms/(S(uawpx4eotnju5xnxtxhpg455))/pdf/Yojana/English/1999/2008-02-11%20(6).pdf.